How Would You Build The Entertainment Business From Scratch?

Philip & I originally talked about the concept of starting over in production with a green field – no established starting points – in episode 11.
In this episode we take it a little deeper as there is a lot of ground to cover.
How would a new studio look? What would distribution look like? Would it be a return to the studio system approach of old?
These are just a few of the many areas we tackle in this episode…

American Editor

More than one person has pointed me toward the relatively new blog American Editor, written by Rob Ashe: Senior Video Editor & Opening Title Designer of Conan O’Brien’s…

Tip: Use iChat to McGyver Back to your Mac

I love the idea of Back to My Mac, including with a MobileMe account (there is also a Windows equivalent I haven’t tried). Unfortunately, I have never gotten the green light on both ends of an attempt to link one Mac back to another.

Meeting the challenges of today’s weak economy

Last year was my best year ever. Huge projects and lots of them. Plenty of work to pass out to the great freelancers that I knew. This year… not so much. Actually this year is my worst year. From feast to famine.

So what am I doing about it? Losing sleep? Yes. But this is an inspirational and motivational column to convince you to wear out some shoe leather and burn up the phone lines.

There’s still work out there. Someone…